Reality continues to rain down on formerly high-flying big tech stocks. Sales growth in 2019 will probably be less explosive than 2018. Blame slowing user growth at the likes of Facebook or more competition for Amazon from the increasingly digitally savvy Target – the fact is the sales growth environment for big tech is taking a turn for the worse.

Eric Schmidt joined Google as CEO in 2001 and led the tech company for the next decade as the company grew from a start-up to a corporate behemoth, whose parent company, Alphabet, now has a market cap of over $740 billion . "They were super smart, somewhat disorganized kinds of people," Schmidt told Tyler Cowen on the " Conversations with Tyler " podcast. "The recruiting started off as informal, but it ultimately became very, very structured," Schmidt said.

‘From a markets perspective, it’s going to be interesting. Paul Tudor Jones, a hedge-fund luminary, said he’s stress-testing his portfolio of corporate debt because he expects a tumultuous road ahead on the back of the Federal Reserve’s apparent commitment to normalizing interest rates and buttressed by corporate tax cuts from the Trump administration. Speaking at an economic forum in Greenwich, Conn., a hotbed for hedge funds, Jones said the Fed faces real challenges amid “the end of a 10-year run” of economic growth that many anticipate will soon come to a screeching, cyclical end.

The market could take another leg down, says BNY Mellon's Alicia Levine. State Street's Michael Arone doesn't see the end of the bull market, yet. The bull market is "in trouble," strategist Alicia Levine told CNBC on Monday.

Shares of Nvidia Corp. dropped another 12% Monday as investors continue to punish the chipmaker following disappointing revenue and guidance in its third-quarter earnings results.
Nvidia lost $19.73 to close at $144.70, and shares hit a new 52-week

There are plenty of things that can ruin a person’s retirement plans — divorce, illness, job loss, overspending. A recent study has revealed for the first time the 10 biggest causes of financial regret among those who have retired or are near to retirement. The survey was conducted by researchers from the RAND Corporation and the Max Planck Institute in Munich, Germany.

The decline comes as the Nasdaq plummeted more than 3%, bringing its year-to-date gain to just 1.69%. Twilio, which has had a great year, is getting hammered. The cloud communications company fell 13.76% to $76.90 a share.

Not long ago, the iPhone maker was the toast of the market as the first U.S. company worth more than $1 trillion. Apple stock plunged 17%, wiping out nearly $190 billion in shareholder value. In September, Apple (ticker: AAPL) released the $999 iPhone XS and the $1,099 iPhone XS Max, followed by the midrange $749 iPhone XR in October.

Wall Street analyst Michael Arone offers a fitting encapsulation of how market participants are perceiving this latest downdraft, with tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite Index (COMP)deepening its slide in correction territory—defined as a decline from a recent top of at least 10%— the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) sinking more than 500 points at its lows, and the S&P 500 index (SPX) declining by 2%.

The airline signed a five-year contract with its pilots in early 2015 after exiting Chapter 11 bankruptcy, providing immediate pay raises of 23 percent and subsequent annual increases of three percent. American's emergence from bankruptcy in 2013 by merging with US Airways created the largest airline by passenger traffic in the world, yet overall compensation still lags that of rivals Delta Air Lines and United Airlines , a spokesman for Allied Pilots Association (APA) told Reuters. The union, which represents 15,000 American Airlines pilots, said "it's time" to move beyond the labor contract borne out of bankruptcy, to pursue a revised agreement amid booming demand for air travel.

A circuit in Concow, Butte County, failed at about 6:45 a.m. on Nov. 8, the utility said Friday in a filing. The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, known as Cal Fire, collected equipment on that circuit and “has secured a location near PG&E facilities,” the company said. The stock, which fell 8 percent at 9:33 a.m., has been on a roller-coaster ride over the past week, falling 46 percent between Monday and Thursday, then gaining 38 percent on Friday after a state regulator said he didn’t want to see the utility slide into bankruptcy.

“Unless someone convinces me that all of us are going to go back to TVs and radios, I still think digital advertising is a place where the growth will continue,” says Melda Mergen, deputy global head of equities for Columbia Threadneedle Investments. Facebook, for one, is trading at its lowest valuation ever, just 19 times earnings—about the average of the S&P 500 and half as expensive as it was a year ago. “This may end up being one of the last buying opportunities,” says Dan Chung, CEO and CIO of Fred Alger Investments, who owns both stocks.

The main equity benchmarks saw losses accelerate in morning trade after a report showed home-builders’ confidence plummeted in November. U.S. financial markets will be closed Thursday for the Thanksgiving Day holiday. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite Index (COMP) led the markets lower, closing down 219.4 points, or 3%, to 7,028.48.

continues to struggle with management issues and the shortfall in Apple orders drove it to a new recent low. With those two stocks under heavy pressure there weren't any buyers rushing to buy the other big-cap technology names. Retail, biotechnology, software, semiconductors and most all of the sectors that lead in a strong market were down Monday.

A loss of 53.87% the past year for shares of General Electric Company ( GE) tells a story of unusual bearish trading activity accompanying the move. The main criteria we look for when betting on upside in a stock are improving fundamentals, leading technicals and bullish trading activity in the shares, all of which GE is missing.

Nov.19 -- Ray Dalio, founder at Bridgewater Associates, says years of low interest rates and quantitative easing have squeezed most of the returns out of U.S. assets. He speaks with Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz at the Bloomberg Opinion Masters in Business event. Ritholtz's opinions are his own.

Facebook stock took a drubbing Monday as fallout from a blistering report settled in with investors, but analysts remain mostly bullish on the embattled company. On a day when tech stocks were trounced, (FB) stock (FB) was particularly hard hit, falling 5.7% to $131.59 per share—near its 52-week low. Facebook stock is down 25% for the year.

Ghosn is also chairman and chief executive of Nissan's French partner Renault and his departure will raise questions about the future of the alliance. Nissan said an internal investigation, triggered by a tip-off from a whistleblower, had revealed that Ghosn engaged in wrongdoing including personal use of company money and under-reporting for years how much he was earning. Nissan CEO Hiroto Saikawa said too much power had been concentrated on Ghosn, one of the best known figures in the global car industry and a rare foreign executive who enjoyed corporate superstar status in Japan for reviving the ailing Japanese brand.

2018 was a breakthrough year for Nvidia Corporation (NVDA), until it wasn't. Nvidia is a graphics processing chip manufacturer that currently generates most of its revenue from the sales of graphics processing units (GPUs), which are used for competitive gaming, professional visualization, and cryptocurrency mining. Riding on the coattails of a cryptocurrency boom, the graphics processing company soared 42.18% year-over-year to a record-high share price of $289.36 on October 1, 2018. Just over one month later, on November 15, 2018, Nvidia delivered disappointing Q3 FY19 revenue guidance, falling short of analysts' expectations by about $700 million.

U.S. stocks dropped and the Nasdaq fell 3 percent on Monday as investors dumped Apple, internet and other technology shares, further shaking confidence in a group of stocks that has propelled the long bull market. Conflicting signals over the state of play between the United States and China on their trade dispute added to caution in the market. Shares of Apple Inc (AAPL.O) fell after the Wall Street Journal reported the company had cut production orders in recent weeks for all three iPhone models launched in September.

Investors ought to pay attention to the changing character of the U.S. stock market. Investors may want to prepare now and fine-tune their skills for a different kind of market. Please click here for the chart of money flows in 11 popular technology stocks.

A lower-than-expected demand for the new iPhones and Apple's decision to offer more models has made it difficult to anticipate the number of components and handsets the company needs, according to the WSJ report https://www.wsj.com/articles/apple-suppliers-suffer-as-it-struggles-to-forecast-iphone-demand-1542618587. Apple shocked investors a few weeks ago with a sales forecast for the Christmas quarter below Wall Street expectations, prompting certain suppliers to issue warnings that pointed to weakness in new iPhone sales. Screen maker Japan Display Inc cut its full-year outlook citing weaker smartphone demand, while British chipmaker IQE Plc said it expects a material reduction in its financial performance in the current year.

Founded in 1916, just a few years after the Wright brothers' famous Kitty Hawk flight, The Boeing Company ( BA) has grown to become a global leader in the aircraft manufacturing industry and one of the most well-known names in the aerospace and defense